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Richard McKeon

    This author approaches writing with a passion honed by decades spent designing complex systems and networks. Their deep understanding of intricate connections and communication now informs their literary pursuits. Through their narrative work, they explore multifaceted aspects of the human experience, offering unique perspectives. Readers will find their writing thought-provoking and insightful.

    Freedom and History and Other Essays
    The Edicts of Asoka
    Introduction to Aristotle
    The basic works of Aristotle
    • Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle—constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years—has long been considered the best available one-volume Aristotle. Appearing in paperback at long last, this edition includes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others, and On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics in their entirety.

      The basic works of Aristotle2001
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    • Freedom and History and Other Essays

      An Introduction to the Thought of Richard McKeon

      • 303 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      This volume of essays is an important introduction to the thought of one of the twentieth century's most significant yet underappreciated philosophers, Richard McKeon. The originator of philosophical pluralism, McKeon made extraordinary contributions to philosophy, to international relations, and to theory-formation in the communication arts, aesthetics, the organization of knowledge, and the practical sciences. This collection, which includes a philosophical autobiography as well as the out-of-print title essay "Freedom and History" and a previously unpublished essay on "Philosophic Semantics and Philosophic Inquiry," is a testimony to the range and systematic power of McKeon's thinking for the social sciences and the humanities.

      Freedom and History and Other Essays1990